Hopefully you do not get enough yet from the Sunflowers, as today I show you a mini card which fits perfectly in the new little envelops Stampin'Up! has in its catalogue agaiin. I made some little thank you cards to put in the catalogue. Simple and quick.

Today I show you some examples with my favorite technique the triple layered one. I love it as you play with the number of stamps on it or the different colours and each time you get a different card. I am not suren what is the most beautiful although the top one I adore the most I think. The middle one I added a little leave with dimensionals, and that one is easy to punch out with the leave punch. And the bottom one I was too quick so I forgot the inside of the flower, so I solved it by taking my pencils and colour them in. So you get a different look again.

Today I show you again some cards with the Painted Harvest set. The sunflowers do not always need leaves, so I made one with and one without and with one of the techniques of layers I love. This time not three layers but two, where I put the second layer not in the middle but to the right as my husband told me and he is right, it gives something extra.

I am not sure if I can keep up with showing a stamp set in different setups, but I will do my best. The one who I want to present this week is the Painted Harvest set. As I always want to try a stamp set to see how it works, I started with some simple thank you labels where I used five colours: Daffodil Delight, Crushed Curry, Peekaboo Peach, Wild Wasabi, and black for the text. My first idea was, I am not that fond of the set, it looks so messy but some comments on Facebook learned me it is a Van Gogh set so we should make things with it in this style. So I started making more with it the next day which I will be showing in the coming days. I am in love with the set now.

Today I have a mini card for you again with one of the stamps from Floral statement. I coloured it with our pencils and I find it very relaxing to colour them, I never thought of buying them but now I am happy as it gives me some extra relaxing moments and you will see more colours.

Recently I got the question of a colleague of I could make a card for a 33 year wedding anniversary. Of course I can and I love red and pink and I made a special heart easel card with the large numbers on it. Of course I embossed some extra hearts and the text is coming from the Dutch Sentimenten set.

Today I show you again some triple cards, this time with the Blooms & wishes set, again the flowers and leaves are stamped in the same colours but the cardstock gives it a totally different view, I love both of them and I am not sure if there is a favorite.

Sometimes it is necessary to try different things, to see what you can do with the embossing folders, not only for backgrounds for cards, but also to make little bags and boxes. And what you add can be very different depending on the reason you make it for. And although the ruffled pattern looks like tiles I found it very suitable for waves for my fishes. So curious what kind of bags the people of my workshop will make.

I know it is very early to start with Christmas preparations but now in August you can order this set with dies to start early. I made a simple card to show you the trees and the deer and the special corner dies. It is a very nice stamp set with a lot of detailed dies.

No I am not on a special tour but I had my first male customer on my open day, he wanted a soldier stamp. We luckily have one. He wants to make reunion invitations. When he came to pick up the order I showed him some tricks and how stamping works. I first stamped the soldier with Always artichoque on whisper white and we put it on soft suede cardstock, to make it more robust I showed him the daubers to make the borders. Then he wanted to see how it works directly on the cardstock so that is the right example and he himself used the daubers to make the border and he said that is what I want for my invitations. Inside he will put a sheet with the text.